Book Description
ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than just an ADO upgrade. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data in a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and form an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples and extensive technical information. Whether you're developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, this book will show you how to use .NET's data access technology to maximum effect. Along the way, it looks at:
Understanding the architecture of the ADO.NET data providers
Reading and writing data with data readers, data adapters and DataSets
Making development safer with XML Schemas and strongly typed DataSets
Defining constraints on and relationships between your data
Using ADO.NET's built-in support for transactional processing
Optimizing the performance and security of your ADO.NET applications
Developing your own data provider for a custom data source
From the Publisher
If you're already developing applications within the .NET Framework, or you have experience of developing data-driven applications with ADO and wish to make the transition to .NET, then this book is for you. It is aimed at fairly experienced programmers, and is not intended for the hobbyist or the beginner.
This book is an extensive revision of "Professional ADO.NET Programming", which was published in November 2001 (ISBN 1-861005-27-X). It is fully compliant with release version of .NET and contains Visual Basic .NET code.
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